[JadeNB]

> You are right, this is not Hacking News. And I regret my vehemence.

Such civility is always welcome. Thank you!

> Still, the livelyhood of the thread is not much of a factor in my opinion.

> Though rock-climbing is in itself interesting (maybe more than average to devs) it has no direct link to being a hacker/dev.

Isn't this in contradiction with your first paragraph, though? This site is specifically and explicitly about things that are of interest to hackers, not things that are directly linked to being a hacker or developer; and it seems that the best way to gauge what is of interest to hackers is to get together a community of them, such as we have here, and see in which discussions they participate.